Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:02 p.m.

Texas, others launch incentive wars to get SpaceX’s rocket pad

By DARRELL PRESTON AND LAURA TILLMAN BLOOMBERG NEWS

In a glass-walled conference room at the California headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told Texas officials he was interested in building the world’s first commercial rocket launchpad in their state — if the state could compete.